Terry J. Reedy added the comment: I requested that we stop (mis)using 'free variable' in the docs years ago. A strong +1 from me.
The 'locals' function what named when 'local' and 'non-global' were synonyms. When non-local, non-global names were added, nonlocals were included with 'locals' as 'non-global'. (This must have been thought to be more useful than adding nonlocals() or excluding them.) They are, of course, local in some surrounding non-global context. And for most purposes, their entries in locals() should also be treated as read-only. I think the doc should say that function locals() includes the locals of surrounding function contexts, even though they are called 'nonlocal' within the nested function. ---------- nosy: +terry.reedy _______________________________________ Python tracker <rep...@bugs.python.org> <http://bugs.python.org/issue26683> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: https://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
